Word: mission
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What I meant is that the council can either work as it does now or it can change its mission and structure, putting aside the multiple tasks that it takes upon itself and taking up the one, overwhelming fight for greater student input in decisions of the College and University. If the council decides on this second goal, it would need to drastically reform itself to create an organization that is able to produce campus protests, rallies...
...thought we could erase the political division on the council," Seton says of the "student services" versus "activist" debate over the council's mission. "We thought we could get beyond that...
During the last decade of his life, Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations...
...launching of a children's book fits well with Reach Out and Read's mission. Established in 1989, the program asks doctors to encourage parents to read to their children, starting at the age of six months until the children begin school. The program also asks doctors to give parents one children's book at each checkup...
...group plans to spend its first meeting discussing its own mission, as well as considering ways to spin the new Institute for the community at large--including the Radcliffe College alumnae that it must count on for support...